A major problem in the United States is the high unemployment rate. Many Americans are unemployed which in turn is hurting our economy. There are a few ways we could lower the rate of unemployment‚ education in modern technological jobs‚ offering tax incentives to company’s to hire Americans instead of going over seas‚ and with job creation. By allowing the small business to thrive‚ they will produce the most jobs for the dollar invested. First‚ education in modern technological jobs could prepare
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Pauline Roberson Social Problems 24/Aug/2014 Loyd Ganey Crime in America Crime in America has decrease opposed to the crime rate in the 1990’s. However it still purposes a serious problem here in the United States. Rapes were down 2.5 percent‚ robbery was down 4 percent‚ and murder was down 0.7 percent (Friedan‚ 2012). Reason for this decline is due to the aging population‚ increase in the amount of people in jail and the changing
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America and Homicide The United States has been a world leader in homicide for centuries. Indeed‚ “since the early 19th century ...[America has been] the most homicidal country in the Western world” and holds that title today (Kelley‚ 2009). In a 2007-2008 list of 31 nations‚ only two nations‚ Mexico and Chile‚ had higher homicide rates (Comparison‚ 2010). Nations with higher populations‚ such as India and China have fewer homicides (Comparison‚ 2010). Further‚ a nation such as Japan‚ which has
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Murder in America Shamika Woumnm COMM/215 March 9‚ 2015 Amanda McClure Police Brutality and Murder in America Most commonly people have a bitter hatred for the police. This is because beside the news tending to hype things up‚ they continue to make the young African American youth the Michael Brown’s and Shawn Bell’s in their communities. With that kind of corruption‚ the officers that continue to commit these haneous crimes and get away with them make all police officers look bad. When in fact
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Jaden Braunwarth Deserving Equality According to the ideology of the American Dream‚ America is the land of limitless opportunity in which individuals can go as far as there own merit takes them. Americans believe in meritocracy‚ a level playing field‚ where people succeed based on talent and ability rather than wealth. Even though it’s ideal to believe that everyone is equally able to succeed‚ society has developed the concept of social class to categorize people into different groups based
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Assessment 02.02 Letter: Dear Patrick‚ I hope this letter reaches you well and in time. It’s Robert writing to like I promised when I reached the great lands of the United States of America. Patrick I’ll tell you one thing and that would be how difficult the ride was to the great land. There was a lady that got sick on the boat and in order to keep us all safe from her the captain had to let her off in the middle of the sea! It was very unexpected but I stayed tough with my lucky Irish
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Deaf in America: Voices From A Culture By Carol Padden & Tom L. Humphries Copyright 1988 This book was mainly focused on looking at Deaf culture of today and comparing it to the culture of the past‚ and what kinds of struggles deaf people had to endure to get where they are today. The two authors of this book are deaf; one was deaf her whole life and the other became deaf as a child. In my opinion‚ that was a major contributing factor to why it was so interesting. The reader gets a chance to
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Healthcare in America Abstract Healthcare has become one of the largest social problems in the United States. Healthcare costs are rising and at the same time preventative care is spiraling downward. Healthcare has become unattainable for those who are financially disadvantaged or those with chronic illnesses and unaffordable by those that are already insured. The United States is fast becoming one of the worst health care systems in the world. Not only are they the only industrialized
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is passed down from one generation to the next. After analyzing and identifying for some quite time‚ Sociologist Robin Williams identified fifteen core values for the United States and how they shaped the America that we see today. These values do not apply to everyone in every situation in America and there are exceptions to all of the dominant values. The United States is not the “melting pot” that we see today‚ as a society now we are like a big pot of gumbo‚ where each ingredient adds its own spice
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Obesity is growing vast in America because almost three quarters of Americans are obese. The numbers have continually grown when the start of “fast food” became faster and less expensive. Our food has evolved so much over the years by using generally modified organisms (GMO)‚ Tran’s fat‚ lard‚ and fake ingredients. Obesity has become a wide-spread epidemic in America and therefore has killed Americans‚ made many others disabled‚ caused many different heart problems‚ and diabetes. Obesity is bad and
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